The Streets Announce 2026 UK Tour

On October 10, 2025

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ANNOUNCE 2026 UK TOUR
PERFORMING
‘A GRAND DON’T COME FOR FREE’
IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME
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GENERAL SALE FRIDAY 17TH OCTOBER AT 10AM
ARTIST PRESALE TUESDAY 14TH OCTOBER AT 10AM
SIGN-UP HERE

Photo credit: Ben Cannon

Revered British multi-hyphenates The Streets will take their landmark album A Grand Don’t Come For Free on the road for the first time in full. Mike Skinnerand his band will perform the album front-to-back across an exclusive run of shows in the UK in 2026.Originally released in 2004, A Grand Don’t Come For Free remains one of the most important and influential British albums of the 21st century. Entering the UK charts at No.1, the record went multi-platinum and delivered era-defining singles including Dry Your Eyes, Fit But You Know It, and Blinded By The Lights. It cemented Skinner as one of the UK’s most original and vital voices, capturing the humour, heartbreak and raw emotion of everyday life with rare poetic clarity.

This tour marks the first time The Streets will perform the album in its entirety, giving fans a chance to experience the full story exactly as it was intended: a cinematic journey through love, loss, chaos, heartbreak and hope, delivered with Skinner’s trademark raw honesty and wit.

“A Grand Don’t Come For Free was a moment in time — for me, and for everyone who grew up with it. I wrote it as a story from beginning to end, even studying screenwriting to shape it and without the faintest idea how people would react. We’ve been looking for something bold to do with the live show, and we landed here: some tracks have never been played live, others haven’t surfaced in years. It’s a new challenge to bring the whole journey to life on stage, but I have an incredible band and we always give everything every night. So I’m certain we’ll make finding out what happened to that thousand quid a party every night” – Mike Skinner

The tour begins in February 2026 with dates across major UK headline shows throughout the summer. Tickets for The Streets’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free 2026 tour will open with an announcement on Thursday 9th October at 4pm BST, when fans can sign up for access to the artist presale. The artist presale begins on Tuesday 14th October at 10am BST, followed by general sale from Friday 17th October at 10am BST.

The newly announced tour marks the latest chapter in what has already been a prolific year for Skinner. His debut feature film, the DIY noir musical The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, dropped in full on YouTube. He reimagined “And The Beat Goes On” for John Lewis’ centenary advertising campaign, and his rousing single “Brave St Andrew” became the title music for Amazon’s Birmingham City documentary. He also played the first night of the Little Simz curated Meltdown at Royal Festival Hall earlier this year to rapturous response from fans and critics. His ongoing YouTube series has also been offering fans raw, behind-the-scenes insight into the creative process of each new release, the latest being “Utopia”, a standalone statement single and a bridge to what comes next.

LIVE DATES
Friday, June 26, 2026 – Dreamland – Margate
Saturday, June 27, 2026 – Bristol Sounds – Bristol
Saturday, July 11, 2026 – Castlefield Bowl – Manchester
Saturday, July 18, 2026 – Alexandra Palace Park – London
Thursday, July 23, 2026 – Ludlow Castle – Ludlow
Friday, July 24, 2026 – Kirkstall Abbey – Leeds
Friday, August 7, 2026 – Audley End Estate – Essex
Friday, August 21, 2026 – Rock n Roll Circus – Norwich

The Streets broke through in 2002 with the Mercury Prize nominated ‘Original Pirate Material’ – widely regarded as one of the most influential British albums of recent times, whose impact on culture and UK music can still be felt to this day. Four BRIT Award nominations for Best Album, Best Urban Act, Best Breakthrough Artist and Best British Male Solo Artist followed. “Dry Your Eyes”, from 2005 follow-up album ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’, won an Ivor Novello for Best Song Musically And Lyrically. Skinner additionally received a BRIT Award that same year, for best British Male Solo Artist.

Since then, The Streets have released further LPs “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living” (2006), Everything Is Borrowed (2008), Computer and Blues (2011) and 2020’s mixtape “None Of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive”, and Skinner has collaborated with a who’s who of British music – from Kano, to Fred Again, Greentea Peng, MasterPeace, Giggs and notably Chris Lorenzo on clubland smash ’Take Me As I Am’. In recent years, and with his Mike Skinner LTD label, he’s worked with artists at the tip of the spear of breaking British music, with acts like FLOHIO, Ghetts and Grim Sickers.

His most recent album ‘The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light’ marked Mike Skinner’s return with a full-length project that melds his signature spoken-word lyricism with cinematic storytelling. The album pairs with a self-directed film of the same name, weaving a noir-inspired narrative through gritty beats, UK garage, and introspective themes of fame, identity, and survival.

An inimitable live performer with bountiful experience both behind the decks and on the microphone, Skinner is renowned for his boisterous onstage presence and ability to grip audiences from crowded basements to Glastonbury headline slots. Whether it’s a live-streamed lockdown performance or a garage and bassline DJ set, Skinner commands the stage with undeniable presence and a quintessentially British tongue-in-cheek attitude. When The Streets announced a comeback tour in 2017, tickets for the dates sold out in less than a minute. It’s all testament to the impact The Streets have had, and continue to have, across several generations of musicians and fans alike.

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